Mark 2:18

Tree of Life Version

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. They came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

Cross References

Matthew 23:5

All their works they do to be noticed by men. They make their tefillin wide and their tzitziyot long.

Matthew 6:16

“And whenever you fast, do not become sad-faced like the hypocrites, for they neglect their faces to make their fasting evident to men. Amen, I tell you, they have their reward in full!

Matthew 6:18

so that your fasting won’t be evident to men, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Mark 2:19

And Yeshua said to them, “The guests of the bridegroom cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week and tithe on all that I get.’

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.